Residencies

• 16.03 > 20.03.2026

What if hea­ling begins in the soil? 

Three ver­sa­ti­le artists — Louis Vanhaverbeke, Melissa Mabesoone, and Farida Amadou — join for­ces for a sen­so­ry per­for­man­ce explo­ring the the­mes of soil, iden­ti­ty, and reco­ve­ry. Drawing from their per­so­nal jour­neys, they col­la­bo­ra­te to cre­a­te a per­for­man­ce in which queer ima­gi­na­ti­on, men­tal health, and rural sounds­ca­pes intertwine.

After a peri­od of men­tal tur­moil, Louis found sola­ce in far­ming. The earth beca­me his way of staying liter­al­ly con­nec­ted to the world. Melissa grew up as the daugh­ter of a pota­to far­mer in Zeeland and now explo­res that leg­a­cy as a per­for­mer and artist in the city, whe­re she uses humor and sharp wit to chal­len­ge tra­di­ti­o­nal gen­der roles through drag and per­for­man­ce. Farida, a bas­sist in the inter­na­ti­o­nal impro­vi­sa­ti­on sce­ne, del­ves into the ori­gins of the blues as a Black musi­cian. She see­ks a new form of rural music — raw, honest, and unbound by clichés.

Between flight and refu­ge, beau­ty and filth lie a hybrid lands­ca­pe of sound, move­ment, and trans­for­ma­ti­on. A pla­ce to ground one­self and let go, with music as a lan­gu­a­ge of care. This is not a tra­di­ti­o­nal sto­ry, but a living per­for­man­ce that invi­tes the audien­ce to feel, lis­ten, and ground them­sel­ves anew together.

Soil Biographies is a per­for­man­ce about hea­ling and ori­gin, about the ground bene­ath our feet and the voi­ces that rise from it.